The Ants of Africa
Genus Monomorium
Monomorium fastidium Bolton

boerorum-complex

Monomorium fastidium Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location South Africa (Bolton, 1987: 389, not illustrated, worker) .

{Monomorium fastidium}{original description}.

WORKER - TL 1.4 mm (Bolton, 1987).


NOTE - Bolton's criteria for separation of fastidium from Monomorium mictilis do not hold up - notably the latter having the head with a depressed profile and that the mictilis head is broadest immediately behind the eyes and gradually narrows both anteriorly and posteriorly from that point - are not supported by the Antweb type specimen photographs; - it seems from Bolton's notes that he did not examine the mictilis type specimen.

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Format=images.htm&Species_ID=33371&-Find.
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